So, if we end up using the draft lottery to determine our draft order, here are the NBA teams our lottery teams would be associated with. Playoff teams to be ordered from 9-16 based on their finish in the regular season.

I actually really like this idea suggested by Coastal for deciding the draft order.
I guess now that the Lottery has already been decided we may get more people disagreeing, but as commish, I would say going forward, this will be how we decide draft order, unless there are any serious contentions.

I guess now that we know who is going where, we could start posting our picks? Or, should we wait a couple days for the dust to settle (and more trades to potentially happen). I'm going to have to reassess who I'm extending this year as Greiveis Vasquez just got a whole lot less appealing....

I guess now that we know who is going where, we could start posting our picks? Or, should we wait a couple days for the dust to settle (and more trades to potentially happen). I'm going to have to reassess who I'm extending this year as Greiveis Vasquez just got a whole lot less appealing....

We're probably going to wait quit some time before we do the draft and we'll probably do it on Yahoo.

I'm not sure you can set up an 'official' draft through Yahoo with just Rookies .. Do you know if this is possible?

And for the rookie draft, I'm not sure we should wait. Keep it as real as possible. Make people pick their Rooks soon. In my opinion.

Good question about Yahoo.

I disagree with the second part, about making it as real as possible. We have no influence on what the teams do with their roster untill shortly before the start of the season, so we can't make this resembling reality at all. It just adds more unknowns and thus luck. Just like with other leagues, drafting shortly before the seasons helps the people who make the best analysis of team situations. That means more cunning is involved an I'm always in favour of that. We won't start signing free agents now either.

A personal interest of mine here is that I'm in no way capable, due to job/family situation to invest a lot of time now and do it again right before the season. My analysis of the rookies and their situations won't be happening untill maybe a month before the season. Right now, I don't even know what position most of the guys drafted play, let alone anything of use for drafting.

Adding to my earlier reason why it's a bad idea: we haven't yet confirmed participants and we haven't gotten replacement players for Apollo and I think at least one more player. It short days as well; for me it's totally unpossible to get a good idea of the rookies.

Adding to my earlier reason why it's a bad idea: we haven't yet confirmed participants and we haven't gotten replacement players for Apollo and I think at least one more player. It short days as well; for me it's totally unpossible to get a good idea of the rookies.